[ChicletPrime]

and now for the myth i've been saving for weeks and weeks and weeks.  lets see what a whole bunch of sand can provide for lore and maybe the odd breathless moment.

His journey through the golden sands is like the God of the Sea walking through the waves.

• okay, that is one hell of a background card. sadly, there doesn't seem to be a way to get a screenshot of it by itself.
  
• oh WOW, we're on Philos?! niiice. i was not expecting that at all. 
  
• okay, i am ONE PARAGRAPH in on the FIRST chapter and... 'her heart, pure and flawless... protects Philos forevermore, granting immortality to its denizens."
  
• well, okay, i just can just stop playing this entire game now, mystery solved! 
  
• mystery not the hell solved, what the hell.
  
• also, i am noble AND princess. fear my little velvet slippers. but also apparently trapped in the palace?
  
• apparently i am a conniving princess and wish to leave my palace. i am guessing this was not an eternal vow i made to stay put and go nowhere if i'm already trying to climb over the wall with some knotted bedsheets... excuse me, 'maid costume'. 
  
• my ninety-ninth attempt! go, me! perseverance is underrated - shades of Hades: The Game. (I should go back and play Hades again)
  
• sadly i make it nearly nowhere. awww.  and i fell into the water for my ill executed boat escape plan.
  
• i am being dragged under by sudden seaweed. i am afraid but.. not? power surges forth, embracing me.
  
• "Order them to leave. Say nothing of there being another person. Nod if you understand."
  
• I KNOW THAT VOICE. hiiii, beloved.  but apparently in this place, you are not to be known? i don't know you yet? 
  
• my name is Natasha. which is oddly close to my avatar's name of "Nieves".  oh no, wait. that's my 'maid costume' name. what's my princess name, i wonder. /taps finger to cheek as if this is a real conundrum
  
• also, the backdrop on this of the palace is really, really beautiful. its giving off a bunch of "Venice" which is strange for a city in the middle of golden sand, but fantasy is meant to be fantastic. i watched Dune; i wonder how many people are dying of thirst in the city so that the princess can sit on a flower boat on a little palace lake.
  
• oh, crap. the city has been infiltrated, nobles are dead and .. hang on. what?
  
• okay, so i drag myself to the edge of the "lake", the guards have rushed off to deal with the insurrection (??), i've made my excuses to another servant that i'm just looking for the princess' lost bracelet... if they didn't know i was the princess, why did they shoot my boat and bring it back to "shore". come to think of it, why was i trying to escape on a boat on a water that is bounded by walls? 
  
• ColdSaturn-laoshi, this better start making sense soon or my inner gyroscope of logic is going to spiiiin
  
• i haul my dripping self up, somebody else hauls their dripping self up... hel-lo, Rafayel! you look.. fucking fantastic. love your earring.
  
• oh, he's wounded. the arrows got him? 
  
• "Do not touch me." oh MAN, are we doomed to always be starting with that? but okay. fair. are you part of the insurrectionists, infiltrating the palace to 1) release the princess from her cage or 2) slay the princess in her cage
  
• "I'll keep my mouth shut if you'll help me!" here we go, one hundredth escape attempt plan! i have a feeling this one is going to work. "Take me with you!" you handsome stranger in a black mask whom i've just met.  i must really be desperate.